Originally Posted by
Chocodile
Hi!
Yesterday night I've tried this technique, it was totally new for me (even if sometimes when I have problems to falling to sleep I use a similar technique, but I never spotted the relation with the LDs). I had a very strange experience:
I woke up in the middle of the night after some hours of sleep, I've done the cycles (brief and normal ones) but i think I got caught up in some kind of hypnagogic hallucinations or maybe a dream itself. Basically at some point I was convinced of doing the cycles but I was actually seeing images of planets and galaxies, traveling back and forth between them. For the all time that I was seeing these things I was actually convinced that I was awake doing the normal cycles before getting into sleep, just like it happens when you see or do something odd in a dream but in the narrative of the dream itself is a perfectly normal thing.
At some point I saw the word "sleep" in my visual field, and I moved it in a infinite symbol shape hoping that this could help me to relax and finally fall asleep. It was a feeling quite intense, and I actually woke up from this dream/hypnagogic state, hearing a loud noise in my right ear (a mixture between a scratchy noise and a popping one, like when there is a changing of pressure on a plane for example, but louder), and feeling almost all my body caught up in vibrations.
I've tried to relax and get back to sleep but it only woke me up.
I've done the Reality checks but I was really awake. Sadly I didn't had any LD during the night, I think that I was awake for part of the night (I've kept doing RC regularly to be sure of it) or if I was sleeping I don't remember the dreams, which is something odd because I always remember my dreams.
I've also tried the technique this afternoon for a quick nap but still no luck, I will try again this night.
I feel that there is a real potential with the SSILD, I hope I will be luckier this night and the next ones.
A couple of questions, that are not clear to me: is it better to do only one induction per night (meaning a whole set of 4-6 brief cycles and 3-4 normal cycles), and whatever happens just go to sleep and hope for the best? Or to do the cycles until fall asleep?
And also, is it better do it one time per night, or multiple times if, like in my case, someone is used to woke up multiple times during the night?